The health care bill got to 60 votes by bribing… er, um… providing an anti-abortion Senator with needed money for his state. But winning passage of the bill like this obscures the question of whether abortion should be part of government funded health care since the opposition is religious in nature and abortion, like fixing a broken bone, is legal.
What started as Sen. Ben Nelson’s personal stand against covering abortion with taxpayer money translated, somehow, into millions of dollars in federal aid for his home state.
The Nebraska Democrat, following weeks of negotiations with his caucus, finally agreed to back the Senate’s health care reform bill this weekend after Democratic leaders made a series of concessions. Nelson’s support gives Democrats the 60 votes they need to overcome a filibuster, barring any last-minute defections.
But critics by Sunday were heavily questioning Nelson’s motivations, given that the abortion restrictions he sought and won did not satisfy several major anti-abortion lawmakers and groups and that it took a major federal payoff to his state to seal the deal.
#39 Yeap, crappy job. I’m still here. Now you have to stand me here, hahahahaha.
That doesn’t take any of your laziness off, lefty loon.
#33-Chris-I think women should have the right, absolute, to remove a fetus they don’t want.
Then let her pay for it.
He and She have a choice before, during and after, making the consequences theirs.
How is it possibly fair to force people that have no say in the matter and usually ridiculed if they do pay for an abortion?
#27-Obamaforever
This is sad. I am so embarrassed for you.
At least boobo, Mrs Fussion and some of the rest can offer a good insult. Even Dallass gets lucky every now and then… but you.
I just don’t think you’re trying.
I have always wondered how those who condone abortion feel about infanticide. If the child is 6 weeks old, and it is deemed that it will be a ‘burden on society’, should we also then dispose of it? What difference does it make whether we kill the child pre or post birth?
#42, Dr. Dudd,
How is it possibly fair to force people that have no say in the matter and usually ridiculed if they do pay for an abortion?
Simple. It is none of anyone’s business except the patient and her physician. Just like your sex change is none of my business. Oooopps, I wasn’t supposed to tell. Sorry.
#44, Scott,
I have always wondered how those who condone abortion feel about infanticide.
I know many who support a woman’s right to control her body. I don’t know anyone who supports infanticide. I do know that people who believe a fetus is the same as a baby are a little short in the brain department.
I still remember correcting my mother-in-law, a staunch church goer. When my wife was pregnant, she would refer to the fetus as “it” all the time. Even when I asked Ma to call the fetus a “baby”, she would call our child to be an “it”. Now how can she claim the fetus is an “it” and still deny a woman the right to do as she wishes with that non-human “it”.
What difference does it make whether we kill the child pre or post birth?
Well, pre birth the fetus does not have full rights. After the baby is born, it does have full rights. For whatever reason, you may want to kill babies. That makes you a sick person. Very sick.
#46 I just feel the need to be clear. I believe that a child is a full human being from the moment they are conceived. I have not, do not, and will never support the decision to take a human life by abortion at any stage. I was simply emphasizing the point that I feel it is morally inconsistent that at one moment a child can be in the womb and have no legal rights, and the next moment can be out of the womb and have full legal protection. That child is no less dependent on the mother shortly after birth than it was before. A human life is precious at every stage, from conception on, regardless of the mother’s circumstances.
#45-Mrs Fussion
Now see Obamaforever, that’s how to deliver a decent insult… there’s definitely room for improvement, but you gotta appreciate the effort.
Oh yeah Fussion, before I forget – Bite me.